A rare repigmentation pattern in a vitiligo patient: a clue to an epidermal stem‐cell reservoir of melanocytes?

dema, morphoea and fibromatosis. NSF is a rare, acquired, chronic, progressive skin eruption of unknown cause, often affecting patients receiving dialysis for renal failure. It was first described by Cowper et al. as scleromyxoedema-like cutaneous disease in patients on renal-dialysis. Most cases of NSF have been reported in Europe and in the USA, and it was not reported in the Chinese population until July 2007. To our knowledge, our patient is only the second case of NFD in a Chinese patient.

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